Deuteronomy · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Deuteronomy 4 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Pueblo de Israel, presten atención a las normas y preceptos que les estoy enseñando a observar. Así podrán seguir vivos, e ir y tomar el país que el Señor, el Dios de sus antepasados, les está dando.
1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
2 No añadan ni quiten nada de lo que les digo, para que puedan guardar los mandamientos del Señor su Dios, que les ordenó seguir.
2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
3 Han visto por ustedes mismos lo que el Señor hizo en Baal-peor, donde el Señor su Dios mató a todos los que adoraban al dios de Baal- Peor.
3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
4 Aquellos entre ustedes que permanecieron fieles al Señor todavía están vivos hoy, cada uno de ustedes.
4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
5 Escuchen, yo les he enseñado los preceptos y normas tal y como el Señor mi Dios me ordenó, para que puedan seguirlos en el país al que van a entrar y poseer.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
6 Asegúrense de observarlas, porque esto demostrará su sabiduría e inteligencia a los otros pueblos que viven allí y que las están observando. Ellos se enterarán de todas estas reglas y dirán: “La gente de esta gran nación es muy sabia y tienen inteligencia”.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
7 ¿Qué nación es tan grande como nosotros, teniendo un dios tan cerca de ellos como el Señor nuestro Dios es para nosotros cada vez que lo invocamos?
7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
8 ¿Qué nación es tan grande como nosotros, teniendo tan buenas reglas y normas como todas estas leyes que estoy poniendo ante ustedes hoy?
8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
9 Sólo asegúrate de ser muy cuidadosos, y realmente cuidar lo que hacen, para que no olviden las cosas que han visto. Téngalas en cuenta mientras vivan. Enséñenselas a sus hijos y nietos.
9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
10 Aquel día en que estuvieron en la presencia del Señor su Dios en Horeb, el Señor me dijo: “Que el pueblo venga a mí y escuche lo que tengo que decirles, para que aprendan a respetarme a lo largo de sus vidas aquí en la tierra, y para que le enseñen esto a sus hijos”.
10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
11 Se reunieron y se pararon al pie de la montaña. La montaña estaba ardiendo, lanzando llamas hacia el cielo y produciendo gruesas y oscuras nubes.
11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
12 El Señor les habló desde el fuego. Escucharon las palabras, pero no vieron la forma en que nadie hablaba, sólo había una voz.
12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
13 Les explicó su pacto, los Diez Mandamientos, que les ordenó seguir. Los escribió en dos tablas de piedra.
13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
14 Este fue el momento en que el Señor me ordenó que les enseñara las normas y preceptos que deben seguir cuando lleguen al país que vas a poseer una vez que hayan cruzado el Jordán.
14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
15 No vieron ninguna figura cuando el Señor les habló desde el fuego en Horeb, así que tengan mucho cuidado
15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
16 de no estropear su relación con el Señor haciendo un ídolo de cualquier forma, ya sea en forma de hombre o mujer,
16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 o de cualquier animal terrestre o pájaro que vuele,
17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18 o de cualquier animal que se arrastre por el suelo o cualquier pez en las profundidades del mar.
18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
19 Cuando miren al cielo y vean el sol, la luna y las estrellas - todos los cuerpos celestes - no se sientan tentados a inclinarse ante ellos. No los adoren como todas las demás naciones de la tierra en la forma que el Señor ha permitido.
19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
20 Recuerden que el Señor los tomó y los sacó del horno de hierro que era Egipto para que fueran un pueblo libre, tal como lo son hoy.
20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
21 Pero el Señor se enojó conmigo por culpa de ustedes, y me prometió que no cruzaría el Jordán para entrar en la buena tierra que el Señor, su Dios, les está dando para que la posean.
21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
22 Así que no cruzaré el Jordán, porque tengo que morir aquí en esta tierra. Pero ustedes cruzarán y ocuparán esa buena tierra.
22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
23 Sin embargo, tengan cuidado de no olvidar el acuerdo que el Señor su Dios hizo con ustedes. No hagan ídolos en forma de nada, porque él se los ha prohibido.
23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
24 Porque el Señor su Dios es un fuego que lo consume todo. Él es un Dios exclusivo.
24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
25 Después de haber vivido en el campamento durante mucho tiempo y haber tenido hijos y nietos, si entonces estropean la relación que tienen con el Señor y hacen un ídolo de cualquier forma, el Señor, su Dios, verá esto como un mal que lo hará enojar.
25 When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
26 Si hacen esto, clamo al cielo y a la tierra como testigos contra ustedes hoy de que serán completamente borrados del país que ocuparán al cruzar el Jordán. No vivirán mucho tiempo allí, serán totalmente destruidos.
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
27 Entonces el Señor los dispersará entre las demás naciones, y no muchos de ustedes sobrevivirán en los países donde el Señor los ha exiliado.
27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
28 Allí adorarán a dioses de madera y piedra hechos por seres humanos. Estos ídolos no pueden ver ni oír, ni comer ni oler.
28 There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 Sin embargo, si mientras están allí deciden volver al Señor su Dios, lo encontrarán si se acercan a él de todo corazón, con un compromiso completo.
29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 Cuando estén en problemas, después de haber experimentado todas estas cosas, eventualmente volverán al Señor su Dios y obedecerán lo que él diga.
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
31 El Señor su Dios es un Dios misericordioso. No los abandonará, ni los destruirá, ni olvidará el pacto que hizo con sus antepasados, confirmado por una promesa solemne.
31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32 ¡Mediten en ello! Examinen toda la historia desde el principio de los tiempos, mucho antes de que existieran, cuando Dios creó a los seres humanos, hasta ahora. Háganse esta pregunta en cualquier lugar, de un extremo a otro de la tierra: ¿Ha ocurrido antes algo tan asombroso como esto? ¿Ha escuchado alguien algo como esto?
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 ¿Ha escuchado alguna vez un pueblo la voz de Dios hablando desde el fuego, y han sobrevivido como ustedes lo han hecho?
33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34 ¿Ha intentado algún dios sacar una nación de otra nación y hacerla suya, usando pruebas y señales y milagros y guerra – con su gran poder e increíble fuerza y acciones aterradoras – como el Señor su Dios lo hizo por ustedes en Egipto, ante tus propios ojos?
34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Se les mostró todo esto para que tuvieran la certeza de que el Señor es Dios y no hay nadie como él.
35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
36 Él les hizo escuchar su voz desde el cielo para que le obedecieran. En la tierra se reveló a través del fuego ardiente, y le oyeron hablar desde el fuego.
36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37 Porque amó a sus antepasados, los eligió a ustedes, su descendencia. Él mismo los sacó de Egipto con su gran poder,
37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38 expulsando delante de ustedes a naciones más grandes y fuertes que ustedes, para conducirlos a su tierra y dárselas como posesión, tal como sucede hoy.
38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39 Así que hoy tengan la certeza de esto y no lo olviden nunca: el Señor es el único Dios arriba en el cielo y abajo en la tierra.
39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40 Observen sus preceptos y normas que les doy ahora mismo, para que les vaya bien a ustedes y a sus hijos, y para que tengan una larga vida en el país que el Señor su Dios les da para siempre.
40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
41 Entonces Moisés asignó tres pueblos santuarios al este del Jordán
41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
42 a los que una persona podía acudir corriendo después de matar accidentalmente a alguien sin odio deliberado. Para salvar su vida podían correr a uno de estos pueblos:
42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43 Bezer en la llanura del desierto perteneciente a la tribu de Rubén; Ramot en Galaad, perteneciente a la tribu de Gad, o Golán en Basán perteneciente a la tribu de Manasés.
43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44 Esta es la ley que Moisés puso ante los israelitas.
44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 Estas son las leyes, reglas y normas que Moisés les dio después de que salieran de Egipto.
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
46 Esto fue cuando estaban en el valle al este del Jordán cerca de Bet-peor en el país de Sehón rey de los amorreos. Él había gobernado desde Hesbón y había sido derrotado por Moisés y los israelitas después de que habían salido de Egipto.
46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
47 Se apoderaron de su país y del país de Og, rey de Basán. (Eran los dos reyes de los amorreos que anteriormente gobernaban en el lado este del Jordán).
47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
48 El territorio iba desde la ciudad de Aroer, en el borde del valle del Arnón, hasta el Monte Sirion, también conocido como el Monte Hermón,
48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon),
49 e incluía toda la Arabá al este del Jordán hasta el Mar Muerto, junto a las laderas del Monte Pisga.
49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (48)
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- 1 Romans 10:5; Ezekiel 20:11; Deuteronomy 8:1; Leviticus 18:5; Deuteronomy 5:1
- 2 Proverbs 30:6; Deuteronomy 12:32; Revelation 22:18–19; Joshua 1:7; Matthew 5:18
- 3 Numbers 25:1–9; Psalm 106:28–29; Hosea 9:10; Numbers 26:64; Numbers 31:16
- 4 Deuteronomy 10:20; Joshua 23:8; John 6:67–69; Romans 12:9; Revelation 14:4
- 5 Matthew 28:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2; Hebrews 3:5; Deuteronomy 4:1; Proverbs 22:19–20
- 6 Psalm 111:10; Job 28:28; 2 Timothy 3:15; Proverbs 1:7; 1 Kings 10:6–9
- 7 Psalm 145:18; 2 Samuel 7:23; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 73:28; James 4:8
- 8 Psalm 147:19–20; Romans 7:12–14; Psalm 119:127–128; Psalm 119:86; Psalm 19:7–11
- 9 Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 11:19; Psalm 78:3–8; Genesis 18:19; Deuteronomy 32:46
- 10 Exodus 19:9; Hebrews 12:18–19; Exodus 19:16; Deuteronomy 17:19; Exodus 20:20
- 11 Deuteronomy 5:23; Exodus 19:16–18; Hebrews 12:18–19; Exodus 20:18–19
- 12 Deuteronomy 5:4; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 4:15; John 12:28–30; Matthew 3:17
- 13 Exodus 34:28; Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 9:9–11; Exodus 24:12; Exodus 19:5
- 14 Ezekiel 21:1–23; Psalm 105:44–45
- 15 Deuteronomy 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; Isaiah 40:18; Malachi 2:15; Jeremiah 17:21
- 16 Acts 17:29; Deuteronomy 5:8; Romans 1:22–24; Deuteronomy 4:23; Exodus 20:4–5
- 17 Romans 1:23
- 19 Romans 1:25; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 21:3; Genesis 1:16–18; 2 Kings 17:16
- 20 1 Kings 8:51; Jeremiah 11:4; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 135:4
- 21 Numbers 20:12; Deuteronomy 1:37; Psalm 106:32–33; Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 31:2
- 22 Deuteronomy 3:25; Deuteronomy 3:27; 2 Peter 1:13–15; Hebrews 12:6–10; 1 Kings 13:21–22
- 23 Deuteronomy 4:9; Isaiah 24:5; Ezekiel 16:59; Joshua 23:16; Deuteronomy 29:25
- 24 Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 9:3; Exodus 24:17; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 33:14
- 25 Deuteronomy 4:16; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Hosea 9:9; Exodus 32:7; 2 Kings 21:14–16
- 26 Deuteronomy 32:1; Micah 6:2; Deuteronomy 30:18–19; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29
- 27 Deuteronomy 28:62–64; Leviticus 26:33; Nehemiah 1:8–9; Ezekiel 32:26; Ezekiel 12:15
- 28 Deuteronomy 28:64; Jeremiah 16:13; Isaiah 46:7; Deuteronomy 28:36; 1 Samuel 26:19
- 29 Jeremiah 29:12–14; Psalm 119:2; 2 Chronicles 15:4; Isaiah 55:6–7; Psalm 119:10
- 30 Joel 2:12–13; Jeremiah 23:20; Hosea 3:5; Deuteronomy 31:29; Genesis 49:1
- 31 Deuteronomy 31:8; Psalm 116:5; Nehemiah 9:31; Jonah 4:2; 2 Chronicles 30:9
- 32 Job 8:8; Psalm 44:1; Deuteronomy 32:7; Matthew 24:31; Joel 1:2
- 33 Deuteronomy 5:24; Judges 6:22; Exodus 33:20; Deuteronomy 5:26; Exodus 24:11
- 34 Deuteronomy 26:8; Deuteronomy 5:15; Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 7:8–9
- 35 Isaiah 45:18; 1 Samuel 2:2; Isaiah 45:5; Isaiah 44:8; Deuteronomy 4:39
- 36 Exodus 19:19; Exodus 19:9; Deuteronomy 4:33; Nehemiah 9:13; Hebrews 12:25
- 37 Deuteronomy 10:15; Isaiah 63:11–12; Exodus 13:9; Exodus 13:3; Exodus 13:14
- 38 Deuteronomy 7:1; Exodus 23:27–28; Deuteronomy 11:23; Deuteronomy 9:1–5; Psalm 44:2–3
- 39 Joshua 2:11; Deuteronomy 4:35; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Hosea 7:2; Psalm 135:6
- 40 Deuteronomy 6:3; Ephesians 6:3; Deuteronomy 12:25; Leviticus 22:31; Deuteronomy 12:28
- 41 Numbers 35:6; Numbers 35:14–15; Joshua 20:2–9
- 42 Deuteronomy 19:1–10; Hebrews 6:18; Numbers 35:6; Numbers 35:15–28; Numbers 35:11–12
- 43 Joshua 20:8; 1 Chronicles 6:71; 1 Chronicles 6:80; Joshua 21:27; 1 Kings 4:13
- 44 Deuteronomy 27:26; Leviticus 27:34; Malachi 4:4; Deuteronomy 27:8; Deuteronomy 1:5
- 45 1 Kings 2:3; Psalm 119:14; Psalm 119:24; Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 4:1
- 46 Deuteronomy 3:29; Numbers 32:19; Deuteronomy 2:30–36; Deuteronomy 3:8; Deuteronomy 1:4–5
- 47 Deuteronomy 29:7–8; Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:1–14
- 48 Deuteronomy 3:9; Deuteronomy 2:36; Deuteronomy 3:12; Psalm 133:3; Joshua 13:24–33
- 49 Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 34:1; Joshua 13:20
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… And he does thus explain what are meant by the things in heaven: "Lest when," he says, "looking towards heaven, and observing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the ornament of heaven, falling into error, thou shouldest adore and serve them." And Moses himself, being a man of God, was indeed given as a god before …
… their own pride, as fowls of the air, nor their own curiosities, by which (like the fishes of the sea) they wander over the unknown paths of the abyss, nor their own extravagance, as the "beasts of the field," that Thou, Lord, "a consuming fire," mayest burn up their lifeless cares and renew them immortally.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"For ye shall not add," saith he, "unto the word which I command you this day, and ye shall not take away from it." But not the less were they innovating; as in this instance, that one ought not to eat with unwashen hands, that we must wash cups and brazen vessels, that we must wash also ourselves.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Wherefore Moses saith also to the Israelites: And take ye good heed to your own souls, for ye saw no similitude.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… (God), even if, as those who are skilful in these matters say, it were derived from Theein (to run) or from Aithein (to blaze), from continual motion, and because He consumes evil conditions of things (from which fact He is also called A Consuming Fire), would still be one of the Relative Names, and not an Absolute one; as again …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)